COVID-19 safety awareness improves in Maiduguri
There is improved awareness on measures to prevent contracting the coronavirus awareness among the populace in Maiduguri metropolis, a health officials has said. Read more :
Category COVID-19
Dadin-Kowa: COVID-19 delays commissioning of power plant completed after 60 years
Residents of Dadin-Kowa, the host community of a hydropower plant, have expressed displeasure over the delay in inaugurating the project, over a year after its completion. The power plant, which was initiated in 1959 and located in Gombe State to…
COVID-19: One year after Wuhan lockdown, Nigeria, others still suffering
Today marks one year after Chinese authorities locked down the city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak. Countries across the globe, including Nigeria, are still suffering the impact of the virus, Daily Trust reports. Read more :
COVID-19 takes toll on health workers
With thousands of health workers, including hundreds of resident doctors, testing positive for COVID-19 and dozens dying from the disease, the other health workers and health services are groaning under the strain, as Daily Trust reports. Read more :
How strike, COVID-19 wrecked education calendar
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the education sector has been one of the worst hits with 1.9 billion children globally unable to attend school. Amidst the pandemics, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, shut universities in the…
Despite COVID-19 Emergency: FG Budgets N5.8bn For Vaccine Institutes
The Federal Government has allocated N5.84 billion in the 2021 budget to key agencies saddled with pharmaceutical research and vaccine development, in spite of the global rush for home-grown vaccines, Daily Trust findings show. The agencies are the Nigerian Institute of…
COVID-19 spike: We’re running out of treatment facilities, FG cries out
The Director-General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, on Monday, raised the alarm that Nigeria had reached a critical level where hospital capacity could no longer cope with more serious COVID-19 cases. According to him, health workers may…